"faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > you want a directory watching daemon. it isn't hard at all to build > from scratch. > first, determine which directories should be watched. > then, os.walk each directory, building a mapping from filename to mtime > [modified time; os.path.getmtime]. > next is your main event loop. this while loop consists of os.walk-ing > each directory again, comparing the current mtime to the corresponding > entry in the mapping. if they differ, or if a filename isn't in the > mapping, something happened, at which point you can logick out whether > a file was moved, deleted, changed, or created. > > so many folks have looked for this that i'll just write a generic one > and put it in the cheeseshop. look for "dirmon" in about a week. > >
While I am a fan of "brute force" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
